Monthly Archives: December 2008

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The Christmas roundup!

Another BIG collection. Just free items. As usual i’ll update the post during this month so…if you like it please add it to delicious, stumble or digg!

At this moment (december 9th) there are:

  • 48 AMAZING Wallpapers
  • 9 Fonts
  • 12 icons set
  • 5 photoshop brushes
  • 3 PSDs
  • 5 vectors
  • 1 Santa Claus Paper Craft (….)
  • 2 Tutorials
  • 2 WordPress themes
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13 amazing CSS Frameworks. Which one is your favorite?

Here you a have a collection of cool frameworks to create CSS layouts.
I don’t want to enter into the debate about the use of these frameworks.
So please don’t write comments like “you are totally missing the point, the grids are unuseful…” or “i prefer to use my own hand-code for development” and blablabla…

If you don’t like frameworks, please, just skip this post.
I would like to have a constructive post about the main differences and the most important advantages\disadvantages.
Personally i love the 960 grid system but i like also blueprint and malo.

In general when i use a framework is because i can have a rapid prototype of the final website, because there are easy to remember CSS classes and because i can have a cross-browser object without headaches.

What do you think? Which is your favorite and why?

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How to create 3D abstract circles in Photoshop CS4

This is the first of a new series of tutorials about Photoshop CS4 and its new features.
We will create abstract circles in real 3D. To complete this tutorial you need Photoshop CS4 (…), a good graphic card and 5 minutes.
The effect i want to recreate is the typical style of James White but in “3D mode” and in a quickest way.

The ball created in that tutorial is amazing but has two disadvantages:

1) You have to complete 15 steps to obtain a good result and you have to change a lot of blending modes.
2) The final image is flat. A normal 2D layer.

With my tutorial you’ll be able to achieve the same effect but in 5 steps, without playing with the blending options and the result will be a REAL 3D layer.

So…we can start.

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